Monday, 2 January 2012

CHALLENGE: Florida Reads


This is my own perpetual challenge, to try and read more books about Florida, or those that take place in Florida or somehow have Florida as a major component. I'll try to keep adding to this list as I discover more books that interest me, but here is what I have so far:
  1. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
  2. Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax
  3. In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
  4. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
  5. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel
  6. A Good Man by Larry Baker
  7. Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  8. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
  9. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
  10. Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms Mystery, #1) by Tim Dorsey
  11. The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald
  12. Florida by Christine Schutt
  13. Carl Hiaasen's South Florida Three-Book Set #2 by Carl Hiaasen
  14. The Man Who Invented Florida  by Randy Wayne White
  15. Florida Straits by Laurence Shames
  16. Weird Florida by Charlie Carlson
  17. Love Finds You in Holiday, Florida by Sandra D. Bricker
  18. Dream State: Eight Generations Of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, And Other Florida Wildlife by Diane Roberts
  19. Boca Daze by Steven M. Forman
  20. The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
  21. Catching Genius by Kristy Kiernan
  22. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
  23. Predator by Patricia Cornwell
  24. The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
  25. Forever Island and Allapattah by Patrick D. Smith
  26. Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
  27. Vanishing Florida: A Personal Guide to Sights Rarely Seen by David T. Warner
  28. A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith
  29. Damaged by Alex Kava
  30. Viewer Discretion Advised by Cindy Roesel 
  31. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton Disclafani  
  32. Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith

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